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Georgia Man Sentenced 115 Months For Operating Identity Theft Site
A 28-year-old Georgia man has been sentenced to over nine years in prison and
ordered to pay $50.8 million in restitution for participating with an online
identity theft and credit card fraud ring. Cameron Harrison, also known as
"Kilobit", of Augusta, admitted at a guilty plea hearing in April to associating
with the Carder.su organization in June 2008. So far, 55 people have been
charged in four separate indictments against Carder.su, 26 participants have
been convicted and the rest are pending trial or are on the run. "Cyber thieves
created a real criminal organization through the virtual world of the Internet,
stealing credit card data and relying on technology, perceived anonymity, and
international borders to evade law enforcement," Asst. Attorney General Leslie
Caldwell said in a statement. "Cameron Harrison made a living by using that
stolen financial information. Applying time-honored techniques from mob and gang
prosecutions to this new generation of cyber criminals, we were able to
infiltrate and bring down the Carder.su ring." According to the Justice
Department, Harrison confessed that: Carder.su was an Internet-based,
international criminal enterprise whose members trafficked in compromised credit
card account data and counterfeit identifications and committed money
laundering, narcotics trafficking and computer crimes. The group tried to
protect the anonymity and the security of the enterprise from both rival
organizations and law enforcement through various secure and encrypted forums,
such as chat rooms, private messaging systems, encrypted email, proxies and
encrypted virtual private networks.
erietvnews.com
Florida Cargo theft ring members sentenced for $5.75M haul; victims included
Ralph Lauren, Dick's Sporting Goods, Invicta and Gerber Four members
of a cargo theft ring that stole and sold truckloads of consumer goods with an
estimated value of more than $5.75 million have all been sentenced to federal
prison, prosecutors announced. The stolen merchandise included Gerber infant
formula, Invicta watches, LCD monitors, Ralph Lauren and Hanes clothing, Nestle
food products, Mucinex decongestants and Dick's Sporting Goods items, court
records show. Eliesky Sanchez, 31, Reinaldo Garcia Suarez, 39, of West Palm
Beach, pleaded guilty to conspiring to buy or receive goods stolen from an
interstate shipment between June 2013 and February, when the men were arrested.
Alien Moya, 30, of West Palm Beach, and Reinaldo Llabona, Jr., 26, of Miami,
pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal some of the shipments. Sanchez was
sentenced to five years in prison; Garcia to four years and two months; Moya to
three years and eight months; and Llabona to 18 months. They were all ordered to
pay restitution. Investigators discovered Sanchez and Garcia were offering
samples and selling items, at various meeting places in Palm Beach County, that
were traced to stolen tractor trailer thefts. In February, Moya and Llabona
picked up a $376,000 load of Nestle products, including baby formula, that they
were supposed to drive from Georgia to a WalMart in Winter Haven. They admitted
they stole the load, delivered it to Palm Beach County and falsely reported the
loaded tractor trailer had been stolen in Polk County.
sun-sentinel.com
Philadelphia Woman shoplifted $200 in underwear from Sears and threatened a
guard A Philadelphia woman is accused of shoplifting more than $200
worth of underwear from a store at the Oxford Valley Mall, then threatening to
use a stun gun on a security employee. Middletown police allege that Shaniqua
Latreece Lewis, 21, was seen Thursday afternoon on surveillance cameras picking
out bras and underwear at Sears. She allegedly used a pair of pants to conceal
the items before entering the women's fitting room. After she left, a store
security employee checked the fitting room she used and found no merchandise
inside. A Sears loss prevention worker stopped Lewis after she left the store
without paying for any merchandise and started walking her back toward the
security office. But Lewis started pulling away from the man, warning him that
she had a stun gun and to stay away. The employee followed Lewis through the
mall and outside to the parking lot, where mall security stopped her and
recovered $220 worth of merchandise and a working stun gun, the affidavit said.
buckscountycouriertimes.com
UK: Family of shoplifters behind bars: Mother and two daughters have all been
jailed for stealing A second daughter of a 'fagin' mother who ran a
lucrative family business selling goods online that the family stole from shops
has been jailed. Dawn Bainbridge led a 'family business' which involved her and
her daughters stealing thousands and thousands of pounds-worth of clothes from
high street stores across the North which they then sold on Facebook. Their
company, 'Designer Goods North East', took more than £7,000 in online payments
in just four months, had detailed sales records and a debtors' book. In a note
seized by police, Bainbridge's daughter Caitlyn Bainbridge, 19, boasted of
making 100 pounds a week and dreamed of going it alone.
dailymail.co.uk
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